Unique Books and Literary Gifts
Founded in 2011, Notting Hill Editions is an independent British publisher of beautiful and collectable books for the curious reader.
Blind Corners: Essays on Photography
by Michael Collins
In this series of linked pieces, introduced by Will Self, photographer Michael Collins offers a reappraisal of photographic genres – including the humble and ubiquitous – that he believes are worthy of greater understanding.
Changing My Mind
by Julian Barnes
A new book from Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes, exploring what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books; about memories, age and time.
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
by Stephen Johnson
‘How Shostakovich Changed My Mind is one of the most powerful, honest, and profound revelations that exists on what it is that music means and does: it’s just an essential document.’
Tom Service, Music Matters
Writers’ Picks



Gyles Brandreth’s
Top Three
Grumbling at Large: Selected Essays of J. B. Priestley
by J. B. Priestley

Damian Barr’s
Top Three
All That Is Worth Remembering
by William Hazlitt
Drawn From Life: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
by Michel de Montaigne

Roger Scruton’s
Top Three
The Mystery of Being Human: God, Freedom and the NHS
by Raymond Tallis

Tom Broughton’s
Top Three

Margaret Drabble’s
Top Three
Drawn From Life: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
by Michel de Montaigne
Triptych: Three Studies after Francis Bacon
by Jonathan Littell

Amanda Ross’
Top Three
Five Ways of Being a Painting and other Essays
by William Max Nelson